Carlos Herdeiro

14.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
224 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Carlos Herdeiro is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carlos Herdeiro has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 211 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 175 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 40 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Carlos Herdeiro's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (163 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (146 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (121 papers). Carlos Herdeiro is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (163 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (146 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (121 papers). Carlos Herdeiro collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Germany. Carlos Herdeiro's co-authors include Eugen Radu, Pedro V. P. Cunha, Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson, N. Sanchis-Gual, José A. Font, Juan Carlos Degollado, G. W. Gibbons, Miguel Zilhão, Alexandre M. Pombo and Luís C. B. Crispino and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Carlos Herdeiro

212 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2015 2015 2017 2018 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair
    2014 525 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Asymptotically flat black holes with scalar hair: A review
    2015 481 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu profile →
  3. Shadows of Kerr Black Holes with Scalar Hair
    2015 363 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Light-Ring Stability for Ultracompact Objects
    2017 246 citations Carlos Herdeiro et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Spontaneous Scalarization of Charged Black Holes
    2018 230 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Spontaneously Scalarized Kerr Black Holes in Extended Scalar-Tensor–Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
    2019 187 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Stationary Black Holes and Light Rings
    2020 156 citations Carlos Herdeiro et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. GW190521 as a Merger of Proca Stars: A Potential New Vector Boson of 8.7×10−13  eV
    2021 144 citations J. Calderón Bustillo, N. Sanchis-Gual et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Spin-Induced Scalarized Black Holes
    2021 144 citations Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Carlos Herdeiro
Eugen Radu Portugal
Ali Övgün Cyprus
Kei-ichi Maeda Japan
R. A. Konoplya Brazil
Rong-Gen Cai China
Burkhard Kleihaus Germany
Anzhong Wang United States
A. Zhidenko Brazil
К. А. Бронников Russia
Luis Lehner United States
Eugen Radu Portugal
Carlos Herdeiro
Citations per year, relative to Carlos Herdeiro Carlos Herdeiro (= 1×) peers Eugen Radu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carlos Herdeiro

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carlos Herdeiro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carlos Herdeiro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carlos Herdeiro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Carlos Herdeiro. Carlos Herdeiro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2025). Bifurcations in bosonic stars: chains and rings from spherical solutions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 2 indexed citations
2.
Sanchis-Gual, N., et al.. (2025). Eccentric mergers of binary Proca stars. Physical review. D. 112(10). 1 indexed citations
3.
Herdeiro, Carlos. (2024). Black holes in scalar multipolar universes. Physics Letters B. 860. 139160–139160. 1 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Einstein-(complex)-Maxwell static boson stars in AdS. Physics Letters B. 856. 138939–138939. 1 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2024). Spinning Proca-Higgs balls, stars and hairy black holes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(7). 81–81. 6 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, A. Morais, A. Onofre, et al.. (2024). Generating gravitational waveform libraries of exotic compact binaries with deep learning. Physical review. D. 109(12). 1 indexed citations
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Bustillo, J. Calderón, N. Sanchis-Gual, Samson H. W. Leong, et al.. (2023). Searching for vector boson-star mergers within LIGO-Virgo intermediate-mass black-hole merger candidates. Physical review. D. 108(12). 28 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos & Eugen Radu. (2023). Two Schwarzschild-like black holes balanced by their scalar hair. Physical review. D. 107(6). 11 indexed citations
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Bustillo, J. Calderón, Isaac Wong, N. Sanchis-Gual, et al.. (2023). Gravitational-Wave Parameter Inference with the Newman-Penrose Scalar. Physical Review X. 13(4). 10 indexed citations
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Santos, Nuno M., Carlos Herdeiro, & Eugen Radu. (2022). Thermodynamic stability of quasibald asymptotically flat black holes. Physical review. D. 106(12).
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Herdeiro, Carlos, Eugen Radu, & Nuno M. Santos. (2021). A bound on energy extraction (and hairiness) from superradiance. Physics Letters B. 824. 136835–136835. 21 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, Eugen Radu, & Kunihito Uzawa. (2021). De-singularizing the extremal GMGHS black hole via higher derivatives corrections. Physics Letters B. 818. 136357–136357. 5 indexed citations
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Bustillo, J. Calderón, N. Sanchis-Gual, A. Torres-Forné, et al.. (2021). GW190521 as a Merger of Proca Stars: A Potential New Vector Boson of 8.7×10−13  eV. Physical Review Letters. 126(8). 81101–81101. 144 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2021). Kerr black holes with synchronized axionic hair. Physical review. D. 103(10). 17 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2020). Spinning black holes in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(4). 35 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2019). On the inexistence of solitons in Einstein–Maxwell-scalar models. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36(10). 105015–105015. 20 indexed citations
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Herdeiro, Carlos, et al.. (2019). Kerr black holes with synchronised scalar hair and higher azimuthal harmonic index. Physics Letters B. 792. 436–444. 21 indexed citations
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Fernandes, Pedro G. S., Carlos Herdeiro, Alexandre M. Pombo, Eugen Radu, & N. Sanchis-Gual. (2019). Spontaneous scalarisation of charged black holes: coupling dependence and dynamical features. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36(13). 134002–134002. 123 indexed citations
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Sanchis-Gual, N., F. Di Giovanni, Miguel Zilhão, et al.. (2019). Nonlinear Dynamics of Spinning Bosonic Stars: Formation and Stability. Physical Review Letters. 123(22). 221101–221101. 90 indexed citations
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Benone, Carolina L., Luís C. B. Crispino, Carlos Herdeiro, & Maurício Richartz. (2018). Synchronized stationary clouds in a static fluid. Physics Letters B. 786. 442–447. 4 indexed citations

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